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Show , V 9 i ROMANCES OF A CROSS. EARTHQUAKES PUT ON RECORD NfcThompIans'Gi1 Lick Observatory Scientists Secure Valuable Records Tbe earthquake of June 11 was perhaps the most severe one felt 00 Mount Hamilton In tbe past thirteen years; though no damage &s dn the safety limit must have been near-reache- Mr. Thompklna finished reading the article In the monthly magazine with great satisfaction. Thats what should be done In every family," commented Mr. Thomp-- , ktns. It's a flue thing Dont you want to hear the new for the phonorecords I bought graph machine? said Mrs. Thompklns, ecenting trouble Not now, my dear replied her liege. "My. my, what a fine Idea that la. Why don't ail families Intro-Rac- e It? Then there would be none of the terrible holocausts we hear about so much. Goodness," said Mrs. Thompklns, We promised to go over suddenly. We'll and call on the Smiths have to burry." But Mr. Thompklns was not to be diverted. This magazine, Mrs. Tbomp-kins- , presents an article which to the ordinary mind would be a mere pleoe of pleasant summer reading, but to the mind trained to think and ponder deeply It la full of fruitful and practicable styrnly. r The accompany illustration) copies of the records traced on the smoked glass plates of two on that occasion. The stsal'er one was made by aa instrument constructed on a very simple pi- - A massive weight is suspended from the top of the seismograph by meant of a slender wire. Attached to the weight a multiplying lever carrIcg a pin point, which rests upon a smoked-gtes- e plate. Tbe frame of the Instrument, the fulcrum of the mutlplying lever, and the smoked glass plae are rigidly connected and are secured to the top of a massive, brick pier running down through tbe floor of the observatory to the solid rock of the mountain. Motions of the earth are communicated to all parts of the Instrument except the massive weight, which tends to remain fixed. Te relative motion of the fepmework of the instrument and of thwefght la a direct measure of the earth's displacement To make the record more legible the lever carrying the point which traces tbe curve la designed to multiply the earths displacement by 4 It will be seen from ths Illustration that the movement of the earth was very complex and In aD directions and west For some reason the-ea- st components seem to hsv Inflicted the most effective shocks, as one of The first lesson Is to keef COII Thompklns flat Is on fire. some one was shouting outside the door Send for the fire department. kVl In the door, rescue the women 'Come In this way " some one wa bawling la the rear Smash In th windows." The cook came charging down the ball with a big cut glass punch bowl She tumbled over The mpklns, and he and the cook and the punch bow mixed in a fierce scuffle on tbe floor Mra. Thompklns, rushing wildly In t quiet the disturbance, fell over the cook and Mr. Thompklns and the punch bowl, and added to the mem ment The mald'wai still screaming wildly In the parlor and the hubbub Tbe front doo outside Increased. gave way with a crash and the janitor and half a dozen neighbors came pouring In. Two of tbe men seized the maid and rescued her In the most apthey proved style. Unfortunately, slipped on the top landing and the three rolled down the stairway with lessons." Did you match that ribbon I gave many pleasing crashes that added to you this morning? asked Mra. Thomp-klna- . the shrieks and cries that were now resounding through the building as Ah," pursued Mr. Thompklns, It the frightened flattera hurried out or would take me too long, my dear, to rushed back and forth, carrying down tell you all that there la In this ar-- their belongings. Some of the Invaders thoughtfully tide, but briefly it la this: It relates how ships guard themselves against saved rases and clocks by hurling fire panics by requiring their crews them through the windows, while two to drill frequently and to go through others fought with the piano and Just the asms maheuvers that they finally succeeded In getting it wedged would were an actual conflagration In the hall outalde and cutting off the raging on the vessel. Now, Mrs. escape of four women from the flat suppose flat dwellers above, who sat down on the flooe and Thompklns, should be so instructed. Then when a screamed shrilly that they were being fire came they would fall into their roaated alive. Thompklns gained bis feet as the stations st tbe tap of tbs gong and there would be no panic and likely no firemen, who had now arrived, broke destruction of property. I should like In the rear windows and led a boee to incorporate the system used on Into tbe building. Get out, you fools! roared Thomphoard ships In thla flat building, and the first step will require me to In klns, "A. mans houss la bit castle; struct my own immediate household, get out or I'll have you arrested." Hes nutty," ' yelled some kind Mra Thompklns sighed and prepared Seize him, men, her mind for the ordeal, while Thomp- hearted neighbor. klns stepped briskly about and took in and then put out the fire." Thompklns stood at bay with tbe situation. He summoned the cook from tbe chair, but a fireman ran In under hts kitchen and had her and the maid guard and toppled him over, and he was bustled down tbe back stairs cbme Into the library I where tbe Janitor and a fat man sat Mary," said Mr. Thompklns. on him and told him to be ealm, that have called you in here to the firemen had arrived, sod that the Sure, 1 dont care if you building would be saved and that Mrs. to was I going quit quoth Mary. had not been Injured. anyhow. Sure, how anybody Thompklns Tbe firemen and a big crowd of can live wld an old crank like you neighbors came hurrying down In 1 cud nlver see. moment to say they couldnt find tbe Mr. "Mary, Mary," expostulated fire and to ask who bad given the you are quite alarm. Thompklns, gently, Thompklns 'tried to tell how wrong. I did not Intend to discharge be bad merely planned to give bla leswish to give you s you. I merely household a fire drill, when Mra son in what may aome day be of great asked tbe fat man to make value. You will stand here by the Thompklns her husband stop talking, as the ex door. Julie, you will go into the par- citement bad upset him. The fat man lor and take your station by the center put a large, greasy hand as big aa so Mrs. be table, and, Thompklns, bam over Thompklns mouth, and then good as to proceed to the dining-rooMrs. Thompklns said that her maid snd wait there until I give you the had become hysterical at teeing domestics word." The dazed obeyed, mouse about the room and running end Mra Thompklns sadly moved had begun to shriek Fire!" This had . down the hall to the dining-roobeen beard on the outside and had The first thing to remember," said caused all the excitement The neighMr. Thompklns, standing In the hall bors commenced carrying their belong end speaking loud, so that all of his lugs back to their flats, and Mra pupils should hear him, la that you Thompklns led her liege back to their must keep cool under all circum- wrecked apartmenta stances. Then proceed at once to tbe Why didnt you let me tell them the spot from which the alarm Is given simple truth?" demanded Mr. Tbomp-kln- a end Investigate as to Its character. Now, then, you are ready. Very well Because," replied Mra Thompklns, the bedroom bark of the library la all after the neighbors pick up their ablaze; it Is burning fiercely ha, fire most valued furniture and which they threw out of the windows Murtherl" shrieked the cook, as In their excitement they would come she bounced down the halt, knocking In here and hang you to the chandelMr. Thompklns over. Fire, Are. fire! ier.1 And Mr. Thompklns concluded that The maid was Jumping u p and down by the aide of the center table in the hla wife was really a practical tort of parlor shrieking Fire! at tbe top of a woman. Ha also decided to give up her lunga. the matter of fire discipline drill, for Stop!" commanded Mr. Thompklns, the time being, at least to-da- t. Work of Art of the Fifteenth Century Reproduced. In tbe fifteenth century a beautiful cross stood la the village of ShUllng-stoce- , a picturesque hamlet near Blandford, in England. When tk Puritans came into power evil befell it, and soon all that was left was a 'jw inches of tbe tall shaft and the L the fine astronomical clocks, whoa pendulum swltgs ia the east and west, lost tea seconds of time, whereas the astronomical other four delicate clocks. wUb pendulums swinging in the tbe irfrt and south, were not affected. VASE yxx) YEARS OLD. In SrTWasatch Mine find constantly th best COAL, and as (or prices, not th You w Pitrcdie square steps on which tbe cross bad retted. In 1892 Mrs Eyrie Chapman resolved to restore the ancient emblem to its original form, and gave the necessary Instructions to two well known sculptors, tbe result being that the finished work was reaay In their studios ten years ago. Then trouble began. Several per- sons residing near Shlllingstone got the notion Into their beads that there was something very suggestive of Popery In tbe beautiful cross, and they raised so many objections that no attempt was made to erect 1L For years the opposing element refused to listen to any arguments, but finally It gave way, and a few days ago the cross was erected and was solemnly consecrated by the Bishop of Salisbury. New York Herald. Bcs lelsstry. 00000 - OOOOO-OOOOO- Do You Wa.nt Some? Toes are DRY GOODS AMD GROCERIES CASH BARGAIN STORE COALVILLE. UTAH Hit by Vetuvlua 5L- Good Job Work..... 7V' ths Mexican hall of the wJit Is wh&t people find at Times office la fuat th place where you can get It at tx6 d y prices that will suit everooe. Veauvtua la no respecter ot persona. Last week It hit an Italian deputy, Dl P.lgnasco, on the head with a piece of red hot lava because be came tod near. ...All Work Promptly Executed When a Dead Man Is Alive. queer question of law arlaea in a Alabama county. Two weeks ago, runs the story, a negro was hanged for murder in due process. The body was' cut down and pronounced dead by tbe physician attending, a." was then turned over to the relatives who took it away. They observed signs of Ilfs was In IL whereupon a physician called In, ho applied restoratives and the man came back to hla former existence, in which he now abides In health and strength: The question la, whether-t- he law can again lay hand) upon him for that crime, since officially he has paid the full penalty. And stands as dead In the legal records ot the case. At any rate, nothing has been done looking to his r New York Tribune. A Mexican Turkey Jug. gold leaf, with which it was profusely decorated in former times, many layer of which still remain on the jar. It la considered to be a priceless extbe culture and ample, illustrating workmanship of that mysterious civilization which flourished a thousand The jar ia years ago In Mexico. LAST WORDS OF GOETHE. QUITE AN INTERESTING SPOT. thought to have been a funeral or Told by One Who Wat at the Great Pleasant Associations Connected With votive offering, which waa one of the essential mortuary rites of the people Pleasant Valley, Post's Bsdsids. cannot be acof W. Edward ot The recent death the wjdow Townsend, the creator of that tlma Ita age reaches It bnt probably Oen. Genie Kretxmann In Montre re- of Chlmmle Fadden, says that when curately stated, more. It or tor back thousand yeara a circumIn he West lived as the a tbe calls following interesting young man stance In relation to Goethe, told by he was the editor of two weekly pa- was found, by Carl Lumholt during It Baroness Oaschtadt, pers one In Arizona and one In Cal one of hla exploring expeditions. ber mother. In a priwhile came to digging close a In lfornla. was light Each a little town, her mother, born Pappenheltn, of Teplc, Which A u gu "L a ndo n terms and between the two towns lay the vate garden In the city friend time the of famyiarlty with Goethe ahdhla rTiIsetfthc Sierras,- - w hich vrae t he had evidently been In remote burlal some site of ternplr family, used to visit the great poet boundary of the two states. Every skeletons were unearthed. frequently in the last year of bis ljfe. week it was necessary for the editor place. Two one were found The memoirs' of the baroness were to go by stage from' one town to the Around the neck of also large solid of gold; balls twenty published some time ago by her grand- other. "Being very young then, says of gold. ornament vol In Mr. breastplate twelfth the was I Townsend. Braun, child, Lily very chesty and of tbe Goethe Year Book." , The very proud of being the editor of two Corale of Our Owh Coast haronesa happened to be present at papers. I always took the box seat on It b a common notion that corajs the stage as a sort of testimonial to grow only In tropical and Ihe death of Goethe. In the last hours of his life," she ray own Importance, and upon one waters and that no coral reefs are to relates, be stood at the door of his such trip I found seated beside me the be found along our own familiar chamber, stretched to hla full height, most prominent citizen of one of the coasts. Aa a matter offset, coral fornd he looked unusually tall. It la towns the proprietor of its most pros mation atretch all along tha Atlantic possible that' he uttered tbe .famous perous faro game. On the way 1 was coast of thsf United States. Although the reefs do not rise eo high that they phrase, More light! but the only very talkative, and he waa very words we heard him say distinctly lent He was one of those men whose project from the water.. Some of the -now ' silence Is eloquent As we drove were the following most beautiful of the Bring corals York aquari' Now has come the time Of great I remarked a pretty little valleyalong and on exhibition In the New called ray neighbors attention to it, um waa dredred n from tb AtlenMe changes and Incarnations! as I bad dope to everything on tbe ocean almoat within aigbt of th city without He died peacefully and were road. What a lovely spot I Bald who said those of New York, and there are many present, pain,' herself Goethe That thar valley?, said my neigh coral' patches t!U etceer to theIsshore threw but the wife of snow-whit- e said and shoulders bor; yes. Its a very pretty vakey. Generally tbe northern coral my upon weeping It has . sometimes And la That although th peothis that where we valley shot tbs through her tears, last editor." New, York TUnea. delicate brown tint. Pink coral ple call an, easy death!" rare. found occasionally, bnt It Is GRASS CREEK COAL AT as aub-troplc- i CREK: GRASS MINES We have th very best Coal there on the market for domestic or b steam purposes, Tov Automobile. YTcIl y i t WEBER COAL CO. Chicago a Healthy City. Chicago Is the healthiest otty In the world, with the possible exception of Stockholm, and comparing the decade ending Dec. II, 1902, with the preced- Ing ten years we find that the aver age death rate per 100 baa reduced from 20.13 to 15.63. No other city anywhere near the size of Chicago can show a better record. Tbe actual death rate of Chicago for the year 1902 was 14.53 per 1,000 population, and In 1904 it was only IS. $8 even lower than that of Stockholm, which claims to be the healthiest city in the ' ' world. American Museum of Natural History Is a wonderful terra cotta jug or jar, designed and decorated in Imitation of a turkey. Thla Is considered the most magnificent specimen ot ancient American ceramics so far discovered hanBesides tbe artistic turkey-headle, the moat extraordinary feature of the jar Is Its ornamentation ot solid wwww ' 02.CO 1.60 LUMP STOVE bric-a-bra- c, -- DELAY. We Elwtys load your teams prccapCjy. Load them wKh COAL, ot course, far that our stock In trade. Beautiful Specimen of Ancient Mexican Art. Among tbe gtrange and valuable objects which have been recently In- sulted THERE'S NO Screened Domestic, -- ICxed Lump And Stor e) It is big enough to bold one child and ia worked by the steering gear In tbe center. Continental Rail J. Y. Demerit!, of Dover, N. o cently ceme in possession of qnlte a curiosity ln tbe shape of a piece- - ol continental money of The denomlna s of a. dollar, and ths tlon of date of 1776, Tbe scrip Is on hear) paper and la In a fair state of pro ; $1,751 PR TOSS. There Is no shoveling or waiting, as we have a ej . . 4 H-.'r- SPECIAL CHUTE FDR LOAD in 0 cj TEAMS two-third- serration. No Blrglng, No Work.' In a New Jersey factory boys were accustomed to sirg wtle at work, and when ordered to stGp all threw dowa their tool and left (0 CJ CO- - GRASS CREEK COAL CO. , |